Last few weeks has taught me to enjoy the periods of nothingness. Do just enough to look busy and kick the fukk back.I don’t feel bad when I don’t say shyt. I’m like yeah I’m just sitting back doing nothing and nothings changed
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Mastering the art of appearing busy will carry you throughout your entire career...
At every big tech company I've worked at the "cream of the crop" engineers do the least work. They just appear to have alot on their plate.
My manager announced that he would be leaving at the end of the month and they don't know what they are doing with his team. I have a meeting at 5pm with the Finance director and I believe I will be let go. This is the same guy that hired his own team of Qlik contractors (Everyone is Indian), so I don't really have a purpose.
LOL I'm mainly mad because today is really busy, so I'll have worked my ass off just to get bad news at the end of the day. The hoeness of it all. I spoke this into existence though because I wasn't exactly happy with what I was doing and felt I could be used in a better capacity in the firm and started building out some goals. Depending on how the convo goes, I'll mention this.
On an optimistic note, the woman who is mentoring me is a director, knows my manager is leaving, and I've shared with her my goals and asked for help having the conversations. Maybe she will be an advocate for me. I have so much going on outside of work, that I don't have time for this. I'll wait for the conversation before I start panicking and planning.
LOL I'm mainly mad because today is really busy, so I'll have worked my ass off just to get bad news at the end of the day. The hoeness of it all. I spoke this into existence though because I wasn't exactly happy with what I was doing and felt I could be used in a better capacity in the firm and started building out some goals. Depending on how the convo goes, I'll mention this.
On an optimistic note, the woman who is mentoring me is a director, knows my manager is leaving, and I've shared with her my goals and asked for help having the conversations. Maybe she will be an advocate for me. I have so much going on outside of work, that I don't have time for this. I'll wait for the conversation before I start panicking and planning.
I would try to follow the Manager at their new gig. I've seen several people do this before when the Manager doesn't like the team at their new job.
Most of my Managers have been terrible and I hated them. So this strategy never worked for me.
Also I started looking at more stable and risk adverse industries to work in has reduced my churn rate at jobs.
He didn't share where he was going, but in another meeting this lawyer was leaving to relocate to "pursue new adventures" and my manager currently lives in Texas, so I'm assuming they are collaborating. I also don't have that close of a relationship...met in person for a week when I first started and a couple meetings here and there.
With the mentor, we have discussed candidly my goals both personal and professional, so I feel she would be the best ally at this point. They also created the role for her and allowed to build her team, so she has a little power/positioning.
Finance director just called an emergency team meeting. got to go.
Edit: nvm, it's for tomorrow lol so not an emergency at all. I'm on edge. LOL so I can't be fired if the 1:1 is today, but I'm invited to a team meeting the next day...right?
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the good news is you don't have to worry about the team meeting tomorrow...the bad news is...
the good news is you don't have to worry about the team meeting tomorrow...the bad news is...
I had my regular weekly meeting and dude said no one was getting fired. I promise he better not be lying to me. I will be moving out of the Finance group and under the general IT group, which is the group my mentor manages.
It's crazy because this is what I said I wanted, but women as managers can be some whole hell. Plus she's one of those "turn your camera on" head ass people.
Last time I had one of those types team meetings, we were the ones who WEREN'T getting cut.
I will be moving out of the Finance group and under the general IT group, which is the group my mentor manages.
I been complaining to y'all about this woman for weeks and I'm back to do it again 
. Lady is completely out of her depth managing this project. Ask her to write user stories and she forgets to. Add new user stories and she doesn't update her tracking sheet. Holds meetings and she doesn't know why she's holding them nor how to run them. She's been doing this almost 20 years too 
. I would ask how these people stay employed but I get a constant reminder that mediocrity is the way here. I'm sorry for every one of you that uses our products
. Lady is completely out of her depth managing this project. Ask her to write user stories and she forgets to. Add new user stories and she doesn't update her tracking sheet. Holds meetings and she doesn't know why she's holding them nor how to run them. She's been doing this almost 20 years too . I would ask how these people stay employed but I get a constant reminder that mediocrity is the way here. I'm sorry for every one of you that uses our products 
I'm in the same boat. There's not much worse than a bad manager.I been complaining to y'all about this woman for weeks and I'm back to do it again
What tools do you guys use for no code automation? They're having me do a new hire workflow in Jira, but they didn't give me much time to learn how to do it.
I switched to using Zapier and it's kind of working, but it's a free account.
I feel like some of the work they give me are full time jobs in addition to the other stuff I have to do.
I switched to using Zapier and it's kind of working, but it's a free account.
I feel like some of the work they give me are full time jobs in addition to the other stuff I have to do.
Dude set up this 1:1 for 5, it's going on 5:20pm. I emailed him to see if he was still coming. I feel bad for just leaving, but now that I don't think I'm being fired, I don't feel the need to put up with this 
With that said, using backgrounds in Zoom were holding me back the entire time. I hated how I appeared on camera because it would filter out and just look weird. I much prefer myself on camera without them. I just need a static place to work.
With that said, using backgrounds in Zoom were holding me back the entire time. I hated how I appeared on camera because it would filter out and just look weird. I much prefer myself on camera without them. I just need a static place to work.
A new hire started today. They told me about an hour ago.
